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realist

noun as in pragmatist

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A realist would worry about what comes next from the world’s most powerful countries.

I am, however, a realist and I don’t get too excited because disappointments can hurt more.

Hutchison overlaps multiple views, usually of the same person, a cubist strategy tempered by a realist style and neoclassical oil-painting technique.

Whether you’re a hardcore survivalist or simply a realist, a high quality emergency radio can decrease risk in a challenging situation and provide added peace of mind in safer times.

In the show’s largest picture, he turns his attention to another test of the realist painter — draped fabric — with a window scene that emphasizes lush pink and gold curtains.

And I think part of it was in response to being such an extreme realist writer.

Burt told me that he considers Paul a traditional, Republican realist.

He was an “idealist and a realist at the same time,” said his close friend, the British Diplomat Frank Roberts.

This indictment of American meddling was also echoed by uber-realist Stephen Walt, a professor at Harvard.

Jacob Heilbrunn asked in The National Interest, the premier realist journal.

While he runs Zola close as a realist, his thoughts and language are as pure as those of Miss Yonge herself.'

But whereas as a national poet he was a flattering idealist, he was as a personal poet an uncompromising realist.

A realist through and through, he did not shrink from representing the horrible, which antique art preferred to avoid.

When you reach the inner circle of government you find always a very practical realism, and Brinsmade is in all things a realist.

Robertson approved of these innovations, but he was never more than half a realist, and this from several causes.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to realist, such as: naturalist, and rationalist.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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